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Verb bump has 5 senses
- bump, knock - knock against with force or violence; "My car bumped into the tree"
--1 is one way to hit, strike, impinge on, run into, collide with
Sample sentences:
Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody
Somebody ----s PP
- find, happen, chance, bump, encounter - come upon, as if by accident; meet with; "We find this idea in Plato"; "I happened upon the most wonderful bakery not very far from here"; "She chanced upon an interesting book in the bookstore the other day"
Sample sentence:
Somebody ----s something
- bump - dance erotically or dance with the pelvis thrust forward; "bump and grind"
--3 is one way to dance, trip the light fantastic, trip the light fantastic toe
Sample sentence:
They bump
- demote, bump, relegate, break, kick downstairs - assign to a lower position; reduce in rank; "She was demoted because she always speaks up"; "He was broken down to Sargeant"
--4 is one way to delegate, designate, depute, assign
Sample sentences:
Somebody ----s somebody
Somebody ----s something PP
- dislodge, displace, bump - remove or force from a position of dwelling previously occupied; "The new employee dislodged her by moving into her office space"
--5 is one way to expel, eject, chuck out, exclude, throw out, kick out, turf out, boot out, turn out
Sample sentences:
Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s something PP
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